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550794	2007-05-20 05:46:00	I extra piece of info, she does know how to defrag it doesn't she. It is amazing how many people don't know about defragging their computers.	supergran (108)
550795	2007-05-20 05:51:00	I extra piece of info, she does know how to defrag it doesn't she. It is amazing how many people don't know about defragging their computers. A very useful and essential thing to know when using Windows. :)	winmacguy (3367)
550796	2007-05-20 06:23:00	I extra piece of info, she does know how to defrag it doesn't she. It is amazing how many people don't know about defragging their computers. Sure does. I have tried to bring my family up the right way and insist on defraging. But occasionally I read that trials have been made which prove that it makes no difference to modern computers. I don't agree, but wonder what more experienced and better trained people think. Tom	Thomas01 (317)
550797	2007-05-20 06:25:00	And you're not allowed to spank her now, Tom . :D I must be some sort of criminal because I did smack her hand the other day - well she pinched my last Easter egg. Tom	Thomas01 (317)
550798	2007-05-20 07:38:00	Sure does. I have tried to bring my family up the right way and insist on defraging. But occasionally I read that trials have been made which prove that it makes no difference to modern computers. I don't agree, but wonder what more experienced and better trained people think. Tom I gather it is mainly beneficial to Windows. I think that Windows is the only platform that requires regular "defraging" to maintain system performance largely due to all the clutter from the registry.	winmacguy (3367)
550799	2007-05-20 11:09:00	These remarks refer to un-infected machines. Tom, slow loading/running machines are VERY common and 99% of the time it is caused by a combination of too many unnecessary memory resident startups and too little RAM. The number of startups is not a sign of wayward computing but is a result of every darn program wanting to install code for quick access, or to check homebase for updates, or monitor stuff you don't need monitored. Virtually every time I check a slow machine I can remove 10 or so startups. For example, you mentioned Office. This is there to provide quicker access but is NOT necessary at all, especially if you don't use it often. Just remove it from the startup list. Other than that it has nothing whatsoever to do with slowing a machine down and you certainly won't be better off with another suite. Printers and scanners likely have resident progs, too. Just google program names if in doubt. As already mentioned, keep the battery monitor for a laptop. How much RAM is in the laptop? Many laptops and desktops get sold with minimal memory to make the product look cheaper than the opposition. This proves a double whammy for laptops, in my experience, probably because a laptop has a slower disk drive making paging/loading operations slower. I recently removed the usual no. of startups in a modern laptop with 256MB RAM (usually JUST OK with a desktop) and it was still a real dog. Added another 512MB of RAM and it is a totally different machine. Good luck.	linw (53)
550800	2007-05-20 20:45:00	In the same vein as linw, I see mucho garbage in the whole HP and Epson printers/scanners lineup . Do you have one of those brands? They like to phone home, collect data and use a lot of your processor's and RAM's time and functional processes that makes your puter very slow . If they (as an example) run at start-up, they create a bottleneck that allows other devices or programs to run but on a shared pipeline . Remember when you had partyline telephones? You COULD talk to a party if there was someone else on the phone too, but the communication was very fractured and you had to wait for a blank space to talk . Not much really HAS to be enabled at start-up . Look for the really important things like Windows (of course) and your security devices/programs, MAYBE allow WGA and Wlogon to run . . as if you could stop them if you wanted anyway, and if you dialup, let that run too . Other than that, almost everything else is "callable" when and if you need it with very little loss in speed to get them up and running . The only things I let start up with the puter are: 1) Picassa Media Search 2) AVG 3) HotSync Manager (for my PALM) 4) Spybot Tea-Timer 5) My LAN 6) GTalk 7) NVidia Desktop Manager 8) Google Desktop 9) C-Media Mixer 10)SunCult (for my moon/sun rise/set times for my fishing schedule; the name choice is NOT mine!) These things satisfy my needs, and I am willing to suffer the loss in boot-speed etc, but that's my choice, so it works for me .	SurferJoe46 (51)
550801	2007-05-23 23:28:00	MS Works does well . All most people would use or would need . The database in Works does not use tables like Access or DB for example . I have seen this remark several times and must admit I don't understand what is meant . As it is years since I last used DBase and I have never used Access the "tables" remark has me lost . I have occasionally had to use a relative database and funny enough when I did that I used a DOS program that did not claim to be a relative database but did have look up fields! I have assumed that this was the main difference between MSWORKS and ACCESS . ACCESS being a relative database but MSWORKS being a pure flat file job . But tables . Please enlighten me . Tom	Thomas01 (317)
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